Celebrity Cruises Joins Hands with Shipboard Photo Retailer

Cayman Islands-based Image, the largest shipboard photography concessionaire in the cruise industry, has signed an exclusive, long-term agreement to provide photo concession services on all existing Celebrity Cruises ships, as well as the planned Solstice-class new-builds beginning in 2008, Image announced last week.

Celebrity’s new ships will bring the number of ships operating worldwide with Image photo concessions on them to 50.

Image said it will provide a digital photo system on all Celebrity ships –including the Celebrity Solstice, set for delivery in fall 2008, and the Celebrity Equinox, to be delivered in summer 2009, as well as a third unnamed Solstice-class vessel to be delivered in 2010- with Image’s photo kiosks and a wide range of retail products and souvenir DVDs produced on each voyage.

Image said it began working with Celebrity’s sister company Royal Caribbean International more than 19 years ago and recently extended its contract with the line for an additional five years.

During its partnership with the line, Image helped to design some of Royal Caribbean’s onboard photo retailing systems and is currently collaborating on photo gallery and lab design for the 160,000-ton Genesis-class vessels in the Royal Caribbean fleet, including the Freedom of the Seas and its sister ships, due for delivery in 2007 and 2008.